The vaccine programme in this country has been outstanding and far and away better than The EU equivalent, no doubt about that.
When this comes to its natural conclusion however, the only thing that people will look at, is how many people died and how badly in debt are we. Not who got the vaccines out the quickest.
The vaccine programme isn’t a thing in itself, it’s a means to lowering the deaths and getting us economically productive again.
My first reaction to reading this is a more succinct version of “what a load of sweaty hairy dangling spheroids”.
Sorry to break it to you, but the total number of deaths isn’t going to be a big political issue, no matter how much you really really want to gain political advantage by exploiting corpses, suffering and sorrow.
The people who will be agitating over the number of deaths in the future will be the same people agitating over the number of deaths in the past.
Most people will be sad and have a grumble or two, but they will feel that covid is a once-in-a-lifetime event that would have resulted in a large number of deaths no matter who was in charge or whatever policies they adopted.
Crap happens.
Instead, they will look at the great job done with vaccinations and take pride in that. Additionally, they will look at the continued chaos across Europe and compare that to the UK’s performance, and realise we’ve done pretty well.
Even if new variants come along and we have a third wave and another lockdown, the population will just shrug their shoulders and wait for the booster jabs.
You’re not going to like this, but I reckon Boris has “won” covid.